DOES ANYONE KNOW THE STORY BEHIND THIS PICTURE? WARNING, GRAPHIC!!!

he looks like a burn patient...I've seen many of them

Before we click, can ya give some info about it

hiroshima survivor, though i reckon he probably regrets the fact he survived.

Where did you find the picture at?
I'm curious to know also.

I concur that it's probably someone who was burned, but this picture isn't like others I've seen. It's hard to believe someone could live through that.

um op you miss where it say "hiroshima"?

please, how fucked up can you be not to know what that is,
you fucking asshat.

Just googled "nuclear blast" to get a new doomy wallpaper, and it was on page 7 or 8 I think.

Well anonymous rude jerk, I CAN read, I KNOW it said that, I was asking if anyone KNOWS HIS STORY. Get glasses.

No not a burn victim. Those are deformities, he is a Hiroshima victim. Something interesting about Hiroshima are the twelve priests go check it out OP

so you just a fucking troll then ok,

i never seen anyone who can look down at the bottum of the web page where the bar is that tells you all the info about the page or ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID?

Just a hunch..

Radiation is the Fire..

In the First by Flood..

Then by Fire ..

It will not be ..

A kill shot from the Sun..

It will be from our own..

Stupidity..


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Yep Hiroshima Survivor.
I just googled it and found this same picture.
I can't find a story to go along with it though.

um you can search google just about as best as the rest of us can,
dose this look like a japanese forum?

The link's address clearly says "hiroshima-atomic-bomb-survivor".

Ooops! Clearly now:

"hiroshima-atomic-bomb-survivor

I'm trying to figure out what you have to gain by being rude and insulting. You must have a very sad life, and I feel sorry for you. If you don't have anything constructive to share, please go somewhere else...like back to school. Truancy will only get you into trouble.

link? Can't find anything about 12 priests.

I seriously doubt that this appparent young man is a Hiroshima survivor. From what I can see of the clothing styles, the background and the film quality I'd guess at least the '70s or '80s.

He has the classical signs of third-degree burns. Although how a fire which would be severe enough to burn his fingers off could allow his ears to remain is a guess. Perhaps he has had transplants? If so, they certainly aren't well placed.

But fire can do strange things to a body, like a tornado, damaging one area and leaving another untouched.

It would appear the woman with him may be a relative from the look on her face.

Pehaps someone is using a personal tragedy for a political purpose? I find incorrectly captioned oddities all over the web.

newbi.

It's amazing, you can still tell he's asian.

There is no such thing as a stupid question.

There are such things a stupid answers like yours. The world would be better off if you just keep your mouth shut. Nobody needs there question responded with the character of asshole all over it.

you aint seen nothin op

It looks like an internet forum...umm...world wide dude. English is used globally and I'm sure there are many Japanese citizens that post here.

End of the War

Spiritually Japan was falling apart, and materially as well. By the end of March, many of Japan's major cities were in ruin. Tokyo had become a ghost town, except for the emperor's palace, which had been spared. The bombing of Japanese cities was proof to the Japanese of American moral depravity, and on March 26, 1945 they saw the forces of the depraved begin their assault on Okinawa.- which they considered to be a part of Japan.

In Japan some of the nation's leaders were still pursuing the fantasy that Japan could win the war. The chief fantasy was that God -- Kami, in Japanese - would save Japan as God had done in 1281, when a typhoon wrecked Kublai Khan's armada. Now the Japanese military put hope in pilots who would intentionally crash the bomb laden planes into enemy craft. The idea arose when a pilot intentionally rammed a B-29 bomber. He was an instant hero for having sacrificed himself. Great numbers of young Japanese men wanted to emulate the hero, and their targets would be U.S. warships. They were called Kami-kaze (God-wind) pilots. They were ordinary young men and volunteers -- neither drugged nor chained to their cockpits as some Americans suspected.

The battle for Okinawa was the bloodiest and longest of the Pacific war, lasting almost three months and ending on June 22. The United States lost 12,300 killed and 36,000 wounded. More than half of the U.S. dead were killed by Kami-kaze pilots -- whose deaths are counted at around 4,000. Kamikaze attacks damaged 223 U.S. warships and sank thirty. A total of about 130,000 Japanese died, including 40,000 civilians, some of whom committed suicide.

For the U.S., Okinawa was supposed to be a base from which to attack Japan's major islands, beginning with the southern island, Kyushu, tentatively set for November 1945. An invasion of the main island, Honshu, was set for March 1946.

Remember Nanjing: December 1937 --Feburary 1938

Today of 60 years ago, many died in their pains and cries. Men, women, children, were killed with bayonets, swords, bamboo sticks... their bodies sexually mutilated. They were murdered by the Japanese Monsters of Frankeinstein (japmof), in the beautiful ancient city of Nanjing, China. In that winter, at Nanjing, Japanese army massacred over 300,000 civilians and POWs, raped at least 20,000 women.

Around the emperor, Japan's leaders dithered for a couple of days. On August 9, the United States dropped another bomb -- on Nagasaki. Finally Emperor Hirohito initiated an end to war. He accepted the terms of the Potsdam Proclamation and, on August 15 at noon, he spoke for the first time on the radio. He said:

... In conformity with the precepts handed down by our Imperial ancestors we have always striven for the welfare of our subjects and for the happiness and welfare of all nations. This is precisely why we declared war against Great Britain and the United States.

... It was not our intention to infringe on the sovereignty of other nations or to carry out acts of aggression against their soil.

... Despite the valor of our land and naval forces, despite the valor of our heroic dead and despite the continued efforts the situation has not taken a turn for the better and neither has the aspect of the world situation taken a more favorable turn. Moreover, the enemy has employed its outrageous bomb and slaughtered untold numbers of innocent people.

... Accordingly, to continue the war under these circumstances would ultimately mean the extinction of our people and the utter destruction of human civilization. Under these circumstances how were we to save the millions of our subjects or justify ourselves to save the spirits of our Imperial ancestors.

... We must express our regrets to our allies who have fought alongside us for the emancipation of East Asia.

...Let us therefore face the long road, each of us, as one united nation in firm fidelity to the Throne and in full confidence in the indestructibility of our Divine Land, and let us resolve to bend all our energies to future reconstruction. Let us be strong in our moral principles and firm in our ideals.

The war was now officially over. China had lost 2.2 million military men, and it had lost more than 20 million civilians. More than 100 million Chinese had been made refugees. Families had been torn apart and a countless number of widows left to make do as best they could, many of them destitute with children. The war had traumatized the Chinese people, creating a passion for peace and stability, but the nation was torn and without prospect of an easy transition to a new tranquil order.

Japan had lost 1,506,000 military men -- one in every 46 of its 1940 population. According to Wikipedia, Japan lost 2,621,000 (3.67 percent of its population).




Recommended Movie

Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima. This movie will be a classic.

Recommended source

River Kwai Railway, by Clifford Kinvig

The Railwayman, by Eric Lomax -- experiences on the death railway

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, chapters 12 and 13, by Herbert P. Bix, 2000.

Hirohito, the War Years, by Paul Manning, 1986.

Among the Dead Cities, by A.C. Grayling, 2006

Bombs, Cities and Civilians, by Conrad C. Crane, University Press of Kansas, 1993.

The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese Army's Elite Intelligence School, by Stephen M. Mercado, 2002.

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[link to countrystudies.us]

once again thank you for the atomic bomb

Stop and think. For just one moment.

Do you know what radiation burns of that magnitude would do to a human being? Those are burn scars but doubtfully from radiation.

They have healed. He would have likely been dead from radiation poisoning by the time they healed. And certainly not sitting up and eating.

te war had draged on and no end insight.. japan was ask to lay down weapons for peace.. japan refused.. after being told that the mother of all bombs would fall for failure to lay down weqpons and seek peace....so sadly the bomb was dropped. T hen japan still would not lay down arms . tje second bomb was dropped..then Japan surrened for the first time in all of thier ancient history
japan had never veen defeated before...so the rebuild process bean for many years as industry started up in Japan.. Japan worked hard to become a great economic powere and allie to america ! .

Yeah, Good one ass holes!